"History will judge them harshly."
Do you really think that matters to them? They'll be long gone when History--which can't judge anything, it can only be recorded and people learn/remember what took place--"judges" them.
And it'll be too late by then anyway. And they don't care. At all.
Can we maybe choose a different phrase? Like, say, "These vile fascists are total assholes who are destroying democracy and need to be stopped STAT"? How's that?
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2/ IOW, History isn't a person. It doesn't "judge." People do, based on what took place and was recorded.
I find phrases like this to be a lazy way of calling out the bad guys. Just call out the bad guys, FFS.
And btw, again, the bad guys don't care one bit how "History" will "judge" them, esp. because "History" can't judge anything.
Sorry, rambling. I'm in a mood.
3/ Your replies have been great. But I apparently wasn’t clear.
My gripes: The trite phrase “History will judge”: meaningless, lazy default (sort of like my other pet peeve, “Are you surprised?”). I was sharing my annoyance at attributing human qualities to a written record as if it were able to “judge.”
WE should judge NOW, then VOTE.
Other gripe: those written up by historians will be dead/buried and don’t care what will be documented.
I was NOT addressing fascism or how to deal with it.
4/ I was not addressing WHO will write history. I was ONLY addressing 1) my exasperation with the overused expression, the idiom “history will judge”, and 2) that those who want to kill democracy don’t care about being judged now, and certainly won’t care once they’re dead.
Those were my points.
Nothing broader than that. Really just a simple gut reaction to overused language.
Based on replies, I wasn’t clear enough. My bad.
@Dgun8 Some took issue, others misunderstood my point, I think, even though their points were good ones.
And so many thanks. I try to reply, I miss so many or I get too swamped sometimes, but I try.
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